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Watch out for unicode when using pyquery and requests. I provided a fix for that just recently now merged into the pyquery repo. I use it (among other things) to scrape upcoming comic book releases =) http://cuppster.com/2013/01/30/decorators-scrapers-and-gener...

Do you mean that the algo sorts on decreasing color frequency? i.e. you choose "blue" then the top results are images that are literally all "blue".

Usually when I want an image with a specific color, I don't want the entire image to be that color...

Anyone scraping in Perl? I've found pQuery very useful. (I tried it in node.js to stay cool, but async scraping is an anti-pattern) You can use jQuery selectors, etc... Just posted something related to it on by blog: scrape with pQuery, dump into Redis, reformat into CSV then into mysql...

http://cuppster.com/2012/02/28/utf-8-round-trip-for-perl-mys...

I did the same thing with my local pizza shop. They were =really= happy to get the domain... and in return they gave me a $100 credit, and I threw a party for my friends... good times! http://jerseyspizza.com/

CSS gets re-written anyway along the way. Resets gives you a leg up in the beginning for a consistent look across browsers so you can focus on other pieces of a project -- at least that's how I use it.

if you're using an ubuntu image, it's going to be the ubuntu user: ssh -i path/to/key.pem ubuntu@blah.amazonaws.com

Spent too much time figuring that out the hardway...

I've got a follow up post that shows how to use upstart instead of init to manage supervisor http://cuppster.com/2011/05/18/using-supervisor-with-upstart

People were having issues with the init script gist... upstart simplifies things quite a bit.

Yes it does, but I'm having so much fun deploying these things, I've created more than one... =)

I've used this recipe for a couple sites of mine, including the blog itself. The ups and downs of beta features of other node.js hosting providers was becoming a hindrance so I decided to roll my own.

I loved that podcast... also, you can find his QVC work on youtube. Gold.

I've been moving my domains from godaddy to moniker as well... for some time now b/c of the better control panel. Plus, domains bought in the snapnames aftermarket can be moved to (and sold from) from your moniker account.

Just last weekend at the startup weekend in San Diego I joined a team working on this kind of idea. Having a facepalm moment right now upon hearing this news...

I've made one of those for practice at http://redlandsbuzz.com (my home town). It's backed by MailChimp. What I should do is place a unique cookie, then on the confirmation page, use it to provide referral links. Mine's running on WordPress...

MailChimp takes forever to redirect after submitting the form. They're API is faster...

I'll take a mortgage-reduction bomb any day...

Around 9, started with the VIC-20 and a stack of BASIC programming games books - still love those crossword generator programs!

I see the fight now moving to the "managed services" space. As Netflix warned earlier, this is where ISP start to really cash in and squash competition, and there's nothing in these new rules that watchdog that.

Today I put together a WordPress plugin/theme to import delicious bookmarks and make them browsable at http://b.cuppster.com/ and a little write up at http://goo.gl/7lus7

Anyone interested in me posting this code? turning it into a collab. project?

I like the idea of us taking our own bookmarks and re-importing them into a new system, then getting it to work (optionally) in a network (maybe syncing based on friend/follow relationships) on any domain we like...

I'm writing a Wordpress plugin right now to import del. bookmarks. Stop gap, but could be fun. Will do a theme to go with it...

Surprised Visa and Mastercard didn't do something more evil... like raise their APR to 19.99%

The native app's loading times are WAY to annoying to use it regularly. The spinner always needs to run for 10 seconds or more on my mobile before showing content. I'm sticking to the web-version for now...

The checksum at the end of each line saved my *ss. I don't know how I could have typed in the machine code to the C-64 Red Baron game without that!